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Some new updates to Microsoft’s OS’s should soon be headed down the pipe.’ -
Windows 7, looking to be one of hottest products of 2009 when it debuts later this year, brings many improvements to the table over Vista. The new OS, while it shares most of its underlying code with Vista, features a richer and much faster user interface and promises better hardware support out of the gate thanks to dedicated efforts by Microsoft’s team and hardware partners. The OS will also bring key technologies like multi-touch to the table, and is shaping up to be all that Vista could have been in terms of PR and polish.
However, before the hot new OS can ship to customers, Microsoft needs to prove its systems and ready itself for the massive deployment that a Windows release entails. The critical first step of this process was to release a beta to the general public. Now, Microsoft is readying the first real test of its new update system for Windows 7.
Starting Tuesday, February 24, Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing a serious of five test updates to beta users. The updates are available through Windows Update, but will not download automatically, even if Automatic Update is enabled. Instead, Microsoft needs users to volunteer their aid, by volunteering to manually install the updates.
The updates are simply stock system files, which replace the identical system files. Thus the update is simply a dummy test and includes no bug fixes or improvements
Windows 7, looking to be one of hottest products of 2009 when it debuts later this year, brings many improvements to the table over Vista. The new OS, while it shares most of its underlying code with Vista, features a richer and much faster user interface and promises better hardware support out of the gate thanks to dedicated efforts by Microsoft’s team and hardware partners. The OS will also bring key technologies like multi-touch to the table, and is shaping up to be all that Vista could have been in terms of PR and polish.
However, before the hot new OS can ship to customers, Microsoft needs to prove its systems and ready itself for the massive deployment that a Windows release entails. The critical first step of this process was to release a beta to the general public. Now, Microsoft is readying the first real test of its new update system for Windows 7.
Starting Tuesday, February 24, Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing a serious of five test updates to beta users. The updates are available through Windows Update, but will not download automatically, even if Automatic Update is enabled. Instead, Microsoft needs users to volunteer their aid, by volunteering to manually install the updates.
The updates are simply stock system files, which replace the identical system files. Thus the update is simply a dummy test and includes no bug fixes or improvements
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